By becoming a patient of LYNCHBURG AESTHETICS, you are giving consent for LYNCHBURG AESTHETICS to use your protected health information for certain activities, including treatment, payment and other health care operations. Sometimes, you may hear these three activities referred to as “TPO.” First of all, we may use and disclose protected health information about you so that LYNCHBURG AESTHETICS and its medical professionals can treat you. For example, we may use your past medical information in order to diagnose your present condition or we may provide information regarding your medical condition to another doctor to whom we refer you for additional care. We may also use and disclose protected health information about you so that we may be paid for the medical treatment we provide you. For example, we will submit protected health information about you to your insurance company in order to receive payment for services we have provided to you.
We may also use and disclose protected health information about you for LYNCHBURG AESTHETICS health care operations, in other words, those other tasks that we need to perform to make sure that you are provided the highest quality of medical an auditor who reviews our books so that we can keep our license to provide medical services in VA.